False Friends in Slavic Languages

• is a complete false friend in Czech, Polish, Russian and Slovak.
• does not have all its Macedonian meanings in Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian and Serbian.
• has additional meanings in Bulgarian.

• The Macedonian meaning ‘clever’ is shared by Bosnian vješt, Croatian vješt, Serbian вешт and Slovenian vešč.
• The Macedonian meaning ‘skilful’ is shared by Bulgarian вещ.
• The meaning ‘matter’ (not present in Macedonian ‘вешт’, translated as ‘работа’) is attested in Bulgarian вещ, Czech věc, Russian вещь and Slovak vec.
• The meaning ‘message’ (not present in Macedonian ‘вешт’, translated as ‘вест’) is attested in Polish wieść.
• The meaning ‘thing’ (not present in Macedonian ‘вешт’) is attested in Russian вещь.

NB: No information yet for Belarusian, Kashubian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian and Ukrainian.